#artiststruggle — Public Fediverse posts

It just figures that once I'm too busy with work, I have the biggest urge to start creating. Bookbinding, writing, fanart.... #artistStruggle

When you struggle with the digital artist struggle as old as time:

You have been doing a lineart on the wrong layer for 6 minutes straight...and the autosafe you set in order to no loose progress when there is a problem, prevents you from rescuing the background layer you just destroyed with scribbling lines on it and you now can redow both.

You have to love it or you just hate it.

#ArtistStruggle #digitalArt #digitalartist #whatAmIDoingWithMyLife #CycleBreaker

What's the hardest thing about marketing?
#ScribesAndMakers 2025-08-05

Fighting imposter syndrome + being confident in my work so that i can proudly tell others to actually pay me hard their earned money for my works/labor and maybe spread the word how they liked it.

My fear of having done bad writing or ugly and inskillful art is the main reason i avoid to promote my books and illustrations.

I don't mind the effort itself..., i am just to insecure.

#artiststruggle #writer #selfpublishing

Da habe ich doch total verpennt, für die #krönchenConvention in Siegen zu er-und bestellen für den Fall, dass ich doch ernsthaft meinen Arsch zu Promo und oder Kommunikation bewegt kriege.

Da hab ich doch glatt noch mal kurz Canva installiert ( ja, ich weiß...seufz), und tumindest ne digitale Visitenkarte gebastelt, die jemand bei Interesse abfotografieren kann.

#Siegen #artingWriter #artiststruggle #selfpublishing #Convention

I feel that i need to re-alive my art skills.
Depression and other medical issues had me in a hole of passiveness for way too long!
The thing is: after not doing jack shit for so many months, nearly a year, i might have lost the progress i had once made.

It will ge difficuld not to be discouraged by the first steps back into the game again.

This is going to be a hard and long ugly phase...sigh

#artist #artiststruggle

I cannot draw fucking hands without a reference of my own if my life depends on it.
Everyday i am more certain, that hands were just invented by evolution to specifically hound me.
It is not that i do not practice or know the models and help lines. I can do the skeleton, but the moment i draw the actual flesh..it is over.

I was struggling so much...i drew 6 Fingers LMAO-no wonder it looked strange. But my brain: "hmmm. what could it be?"

#artistStruggle #digitalsketch #practice

ADHS kreativ sein heißt auch, dass du schon zweimal den Wasserkocher neu starten musstest, weil du vergessen hattest, dir deinen Instantkaffee aufzuschütten und als der es dann endlich nach dem dritten Mal in dein Büro geschafft hat, denkst du erst daran, dass du dir ja Kaffee gemacht hattest, als der schon kalt ist.
Frustriert gibt es dann halt kalten Muckefuck.
Harumpf

#arting_writer #artiststruggle #ADHS

Auch wenn der ganze Datenkram und Bankkram direkt mit meinem Schreiben und der Kunst im Zuammenhang steht, so sollte ich doch heute auch noch mal was kreatives beitragen zur TL (wenn mich nicht schon alle für heute stummgeschaltet haben LOL-es sei ihnen verziehen😅 )

Ich will gern was zeichnen und mit Wasserfarben bemalen. Helft mir mal:

#arting_author #Arting-writer #Buchillustration #KreativePrompts #KleineKunstklasse #ArtistStruggle

I should be cleaning the house, but I needed to get that smol illu out of my system, do you know this problem? 😬

#artist #artiststruggle

Who is procrastinating with chores just to avoid working further on a commission with difficult perspective that one is afraid to fuck up? Not me...noooooo. Never. 😅

Let's just say: i did chores i avoided for weeks just to not watch myself fucking up that illustration LOL

#artiststruggle

Please dont be like this, if you want, need something, be straightforward (hey! do you do commissions? or "hey, can i use your art for x") It'll save us all a lot of time

#shutupNumen #artiststruggle

I'm subscribed to like 3-4 art newsletters and due to irl been as has been (and me being like i am, looking the numbers of unread mails growing thicker and feeling overwhelmed by it) i've not read any since.... september? Now i got the time and headspace and gosh, there are some there spitting gold and pushing me back toward my sketchbook/personal art. Thank you artists that spend time in newsletters :)

#artiststruggle #shutupNumen #adhd

Obviously, I opened an account on the butterfly site mainly to follow people who only lived in the hellplace and still interest me (mainly artists) and because I'm a starving freelance artist and need to be everywhere, but the FOMO and posting absolutely EVERYTHING gives me a dreadful fatigue. Is mastodon's mood more chill for me so better for my (meagre) attention span, or am I just old?

#shutupNumen #artiststruggle

Me: I want to be more present in Mastodon and such and share more art. Maybe I should upload older work or work on personal art more often.

Also me: constantly feeling ill/tired lately or working on commissions I could not show yet

The struggle is real XD

#shutupNumen #artiststruggle

I want to art today.
Question stays: What will it be?

Comicwork
NeonRelaxArt
Random Sketch stuff

I am kinda thinking about making art to be sold out in the NeonRelaxArt style. But i do not know if that would be worth the while cause i am really bad ad selling stuff XD

#art #artiststruggle #Kunst #Künstlerin

Sometimes it makes me sad, that posts about times i cannot create because of depression gather more interest than posts that show my creations in times i can.

This tells either something about the low entertainment factor of my art, amd storytelling,
or the entertainment interests of society
and i am currently a bit torn which version i should find more devastating.

#art #philosophy #artiststruggle #randomThoughts

Sometimes it makes me sad, that posts about times i cannot create because of depression gather more interest than posts that show my creations in times i can.

This tells either something about the low entertainment factor of my art, amd storytelling,
or the entertainment interests of society
and i am currently a bit torn which version i should find more devastating.

#art #philosophy #artiststruggle #randomThoughts

hey hey! just to make sure i'm still alive and kicking, but irl has been being a bitch with me lately and work/money/health has been a little nightmare. I expect to return to the vibe little by little with some exciting new commissions and some personal art :D

#shutupNumen #artiststruggle

https://youtu.be/kPzdXWu8VoI?si=UXdKi_nJ4fPN97hX

Commentary like this makes me happy that i never joined Art Tiktok XD

#Artbubble #Artist #Artiststruggle #Tiktok #ArtCommunity

The immediate anxiety of working on my website and:
- to have to choose between all my work and it all looking bad to me when I do so
- have to struggle with new templates
- to have to nightshade everything because of some crappy folk.
But at least I've spent a bit of time on it! Usually I get so overwhelmed before the start so I never get around to it, so small victories.

#shutupNumen #artiststruggle #thewebsitesaga

cleaning up new scans is so much fun, not, because all my stuff is dusty as fuck 😬

#artiststruggle

Sharing this here to all my anxious pals that also feel guilty when they left 5 minutes of their schedule to breath too

#shutupNumen #ArtistStruggle

Über das Zeichnen zu posten und Screenshots zu zeigen und ACTUALLY deinen eigenen Comic the fuck weiterzeichnen sind zwei verschiedenen Hobbies, wie ich immer wieder feststellen muss.

Ich bin ja manchmal versucht, den Screenshot von einem WIP zu posten und Stunden später ins Internet zu gehen und mich zu wundern, warum es immer noch nicht fertig ist.
Dann fällt mir ein: Ach ja. Ich bin der Autor, Sketcher, Zeichner, Colorist. Ich muss das ja alles machen. Seufz

#ArtistStruggle

I have draw for myself (no master stuff, no commission, no i must draw this) for the first ime since 29th of January and guyyyyyyys i don't know how to draw for myself anymore XD

#shutupNumen #ArtistlLife #ArtistStruggle

One should not only show inspired perfect art, that is beautiful or meaningful.
So i present today the title :

"I try to think of something for my #eveningrelaxart but my brain empty and so...uhm...this"

I am so sorry😂

#artiststruggle #arting_writers

Da ich gerade in Memory Lane unterwegs bin (weil, wer will schon produktiv sein..pfui), ich hatte doch tatsächlich mal ein Meme gemacht in guten alten Insta Zeiten:

Und wenn ich sage, wie lange ich schon an den letzten Zeichnungen hänge, weil meine Mental Health gerne Achterbahn fährt.
Ihr dürft mir alle in den Arsch treten, wenn Schicksalweber 2024 nicht rauskommt. LOL

#Meme #autorenleben #autor_innenleben #Schreiben #Artiststruggle #AutorenStruggle

There are two very exciting and nerve wrecking moments when doing commissions:

-Showing of first sketches in order to find out, what the client has in his mind and translate and transform first drafts into a clean sketch

-showing the client the finished version and hope he will like it.

It is most exciting when the client only has a rough and vague idea and you need to investigate, what his mind sees.

#commissions #Commissionwork #artiststruggle

MetaEntzug - First World Problems
Jetzt hatte ich eben das erste Mal, dass ich mich nicht entscheiden konnte, was genau ich Sinnvolles machen soll (Zeichnen digital, Zeichnen traditionell, Spaßprojekt, Zeichnen fürs Buch, Korrektur...) und ich Instagram öffnen wollte um dort Zeit zu vergeuden, statt eine Entscheidung zu treffen. Doch die App war nicht da.

Kurzer Halt im Gehirn.
Mist
Ich muss mich tatsächlich entscheiden.

Einatmen. Ausatmen.

Helft mir!

#Schreiben #FediArtist #ArtistStruggle

I think this is the first study where I SEE I've learned something. I'm pretty fond of the lighting on his cheek and that hard edge :D

#MastoArt #artistsonmastodon #ArtistWorkout #ArtistStruggle #DigitalArt #artstudy

Do homework and stop being late or work in my new icon/logo as I've been wanting for AGES 🤔

#artistsonmastodon #ArtistStruggle

Dunno WHEN one of my fav anatomy books (with human/animal comparatives and GORGEOUS pencil drawings) caught water and OMG here trying to put all the sheets aside without any extra damage.

Devastating

#ArtistStruggle

Something triggered me today and to work on it i did, what helps me best: push the feeling on a canvas.
I want to remind, me, that i want to stay in the light. I deserve the light. That i am enough the way i am and i am allowed to shine pride.

That is where i stay: in the light.

#MentalHealth #Depression #healing #artistStruggle #Poem #Poesie

⚠️ Artistic nudity, emotional but positiv toned poem and imagery

I'm afraid to bake the head of my art doll because I'm afraid it's going to be too heavy 🙃 #artiststruggle

My #artistalley prints arrived and they're so pretty 🥹
Moo.com never disappoints me in print quality things (not sponsored, I love them genuinely)

I just sorted them and all three minutes i get nervous that probably nobody will buy any 🙃 I have mostly original art for them and I know people prefer fanart - but german cons are pretty strict about that.

#art #artiststruggle

Me: I really like how this drawing came out, I kinda want to show to around
Also me: to post it on social media I have to turn on my pc, clean the scan up, save it for web, make a post, put an alt tag in, think of hashtags

- never posts shit -

#artiststruggle

Selling physical artworks makes no sense if you compare it to the software industry or even to real estate investing where most profits come in the form of rent, not ownership transfer. Leasing artworks instead of selling them appears to be the logical solution but it's not very practical yet. I'm looking for ways to standardize this practice. One aspect would be to use a well-known, battle-tested lease contract similar to the well-known free software licenses (GPL, BSD, ...). Any pointers or suggestions? I want to end artist exploitation.

Photo: "City Map", 2023 by Martin Jambon. Acrylic on wood panel.

#legal #art #artist #exploitation #gpl #fsf #freeart #rent #artiststruggle #painting

Ah, I'm feeling *inspired* today! ✨Inspired!✨ Yes! About time. I was feeling down for days now, I might be getting over that soon! #artistLife #artistStruggle #artistProblems